{"id":940,"date":"2008-09-13T02:58:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T06:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=940"},"modified":"2018-08-12T03:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T07:27:46","slug":"gavin-taaffe-sad-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Taaffe: Sad&nbsp;Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It can be awk\u00adward to review an album when the musi\u00adcian is a per\u00adsonal friend, espe\u00adcially when one of the songs ref\u00ader\u00adences events one has per\u00adson\u00adally wit\u00adnessed, but not in this case. The music speaks for itself. This com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion of songs com\u00adposed over the last eight years con\u00adfirms Gavin Taaffe\u2019s sta\u00adtus as an upcom\u00ading singer-song\u00adwriter worth com\u00adpar\u00ading to Bruce Cock\u00adburn or Suf\u00adjan Stevens. The lyrics are intel\u00adli\u00adgent, sub\u00adtle, sup\u00adple\u2026 and, yes, sad. You should have a taste for con\u00adcen\u00adtrated pes\u00adsimism tem\u00adpered by a sense of sur\u00advival to enjoy them. Inef\u00adfa\u00adble feel\u00adings of dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment, loss, and long\u00ading are cap\u00adtured in crisp ver\u00adbal images and piquant melod\u00adic phras\u00ades and gui\u00adtar licks. Rec\u00adom\u00admended for late-night listening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be awk\u00adward to review an album when the musi\u00adcian is a per\u00adsonal friend, espe\u00adcially when one of the songs ref\u00ader\u00adences events one has per\u00adson\u00adally wit\u00adnessed, but not in this case. The music speaks for itself. This com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion&nbsp;of&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=940\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cs-listening-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8347,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/8347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}